Medical Terminologies

Cards (255)

  • 4 components of Medical Terminology
    Prefixes
    Suffixes
    Root Words
    Eponyms
  • Suffix - "itis" means
    Inflammation
  • Prefix - "Arthro" means
    Joint
  • Root word - "angi" means 

    vessel
  • Root word - "cephal" means
    Head
  • Root word - "Derm" means
    Skin
  • Root word - "Photo" means
    light
  • Root word - "therapy" means
    Treatment
  • Prefix - "a(n)" means 


    Absence or without
  • Prefix - "ab" means 


    Away from
  • Prefix - "ad" means 


    Toward
  • Prefix - "ambi" means 


    Both sides
  • Prefix - "ante" means 


    Before or Forward
  • Prefix - "Anti" means 


    Against
  • Prefix - "apo" means 


    Away from
  • Prefix - "Aut(o)" means 


    Self
  • Prefix - "bi" means 


    two
  • Prefix - "diplo" means 


    double
  • Prefix - "dys" means 


    Difficult or painful
  • Prefix - "ec" means 


    Out of
  • Prefix - "end(o)" means 


    Inward
  • Prefix - "eu" means 


    Normal
  • Prefix - "ex" means 


    Outside
  • Prefix - "hetero" means 


    Other or different
  • Prefix - "hyper" means 


    above
  • Prefix - "hypo" means 


    below
  • Prefix - "infra" means 


    Beneath
  • Prefix - "intra" means 


    within
  • Prefix - "juxta" means 


    Near
  • Prefix - "Macr(o)" means 


    Large or Long
  • Prefix - "Mal" means 


    Bad or abnormal
  • Prefix - "mega" means
    great or large
  • Prefix - "meta" means
    Beyond or change
  • Prefix - "micr(o)" means 

    Small
  • Prefix - "mono " means
    One
  • Prefix - "mono " means
    One
  • Prefix - "morph(o)" means
    Shape
  • Prefix - "multi" means
    Many
  • Prefix - "Olig(o)" means
    few or little
  • Prefix - "par(a)" means
    near or beside or accessory to